Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
BARRY HUMPHRIES
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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I love Australia – I think.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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